Poem by Egon Schiele: A Self-Portrait
Leopold Museum, Vienna
ESDA ID
139
Nebehay 1979
157
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4495
Date
July 1910 (inferred from content)
Material/technique
Indelible ink on paper
Dimensions
30 x 19 cm
Transcription
[Translation:]
A SELF-PORTRAIT.
I AM FOR ME AND THOSE TO WHOM
THE THIRSTY DRUNKENNESS FOR
FREEDOM PRESENTS EVERYTHING WITH ME,
AND FOR EVERYONE AS WELL, BECAUSE EVERYONE
I LOVE AS WELL, – LOVE.
I AM AMONG THE MOST NOBLE
THE MOST NOBLE
AND AMONG THOSE WHO REQUITE
THE ONE WHO REQUITES MOST
I AM HUMAN, I LOVE
DEATH AND LOVE
LIFE.
Egon Schiele 1910.
A SELF-PORTRAIT.
I AM FOR ME AND THOSE TO WHOM
THE THIRSTY DRUNKENNESS FOR
FREEDOM PRESENTS EVERYTHING WITH ME,
AND FOR EVERYONE AS WELL, BECAUSE EVERYONE
I LOVE AS WELL, – LOVE.
I AM AMONG THE MOST NOBLE
THE MOST NOBLE
AND AMONG THOSE WHO REQUITE
THE ONE WHO REQUITES MOST
I AM HUMAN, I LOVE
DEATH AND LOVE
LIFE.
Egon Schiele 1910.
Provenance
Arthur Roessler, Wien
Max Wagner, Wien
1987: Privatbesitz, Wien (Ankauf Sotheby’s, London, Aukt. 26./27.11.1987, lot 197, Abb. auf S. 91.
1994: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (Stiftung)
Provenienz lt. Nebehay 1979:
Verbleib unbekannt, als Quelle wird Roessler 1921, S. 19 angegeben.
Max Wagner, Wien
1987: Privatbesitz, Wien (Ankauf Sotheby’s, London, Aukt. 26./27.11.1987, lot 197, Abb. auf S. 91.
1994: Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (Stiftung)
Provenienz lt. Nebehay 1979:
Verbleib unbekannt, als Quelle wird Roessler 1921, S. 19 angegeben.
Recorded in
Roessler 1921, S. 19; Wiener Bibl. Ges. 1977, S. 15; Brandstätter 1985, S: 40; Werth 2006, S. 369; Leopold Museum 2008, S. 51
Owner
Image credit
Leopold Museum, Vienna
Linked objects
(+-)
PURL: https://www.egonschiele.at/139